I speak, write, research, and experiment for better futures.

Books

Book cover for Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
Book cover of What Algorithms Want
Book cover of Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities

(And lots more here I had something to do with)

Essays, Interviews & Media

Envisioning Artificial Intelligence. Science, January 11, 2024

Future Cities, BBC 4, November 14, 2023.

Closing Out the Search Bar. Slate, March 1, 2023.

How We Practice Hope. Review of Artificial Life After Frankenstein by Eileen Hunt Botting. Issues in Science and Technology.

What Dune Should Teach Us about the Beauty of ‘Wastelands’, Scientific American, October 21, 2021. Celina Osuna, Ed Finn, and Osvaldo E. Sala

A conversation with legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, UN High Level Climate Champion Nigel Topping, and our amazing Climate Imagination Fellows Vandana Singh, Libya Brenda, and Hannah Onoguwe
A panel discussing Future Tense Fiction stories about algorithmic justice featuring authors Holli Mintzer, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Wherein I talk about new metaphors for artificial intelligence as part of a special event hosted by the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (with a talk by the amazing novelist Richard Powers!)